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Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Blitzerland on September 26, 2004, 11:21:48 am

Hone your skills and figure out how skilled you are at the various aspects of Fs2.

How you ask? With this.

*Pulls link out of hat

//www.freewebs.com/blitzerland/TrainingB.zip

Right click save to download! Good luck! Let me know how you do :D

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: TopAce on September 26, 2004, 11:38:07 am

hmmm .. I hope it is not just another exageratedly hard mission ...

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Blitzerland on September 26, 2004, 12:09:05 pm

Of course not. Unless you play it on "Hard" or "Insane" mode. :p

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Fergus on September 26, 2004, 12:13:58 pm

Hmm. bit easy.  I would take off all the "D" weapons, add directives, didnt know when some sections done and I would definitly take off the Terran Mara.  Made it way too easy.

All personal opinions of course.

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: TopAce on September 26, 2004, 12:17:05 pm

Giving food backwards = Feed back!

• It wasn't Hard. It is better than any Derelict missions in this point of view. Actually, it beats Derelict in all aspects. Keep it up!
• The debrieifng texts were witty.
• The Maras were too powerful, they couldn't miss even once. Reduce their Ai level and increase the Ai level of the Astaroths.
• Can we get some nebula background?
• It is commendable that the cruisers did not have flaks and AAA beams. :yes: :yes:
• It is a bit boring with Maxims or Prometheus S cannons, you only have to get within firing range, increase time compression to an unbelievable level and keep the fire button pressed.
• I did not test the Ultimate challenge part, my Perseus was badly shot down to 18% hull by the jumping in Rakshasa while I had time compression at 8x, so I did not want to take chances.
• Set the number of each available fighter in the Ship Selection screen to 1 instead of 5.
• Give something more powerful as default. The Ulysses with Subach and Prom R is not the best choice. I think the Myrmidon with double Prom S two banks of Tempests and a bank of Tornadoes would be appropriate as default

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Blitzerland on September 26, 2004, 02:50:49 pm

The mission isn't supposed to be hard. I made it for myself awhile back so I could test out all the ships and such.

The whole purpose is just to hone your skills with any ship you'd like. If you want more of a challenge, use different weapons/ships.

Maybe I should have made that more clear :D

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 26, 2004, 02:55:12 pm

A bug to report, unfortunately.

After completing the first part of the "Intercept" challenge, the second never started. Kinda weird, considering I got a "and now for the second part" message.

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Blitzerland on September 26, 2004, 03:00:37 pm

Fixed.

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Fergus on September 27, 2004, 04:12:11 pm

I am a tad critical at times, bad me, but with titles like Do you have what it takes? you kind of expect a mission that will challenge even the greates players/shove 5 Sathanas' at Alpha 1.

PS. And the swarm of fighters at the end was a bit of an anti-climax.

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Blitzerland on September 27, 2004, 04:59:38 pm

Swarm of fighters? You mean ultimate challenge? Didn't you fight the sentries? There is a chance you will be surronded by sentry guns :D

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 27, 2004, 05:11:09 pm

I only get close enough to be in Tornado range with non-mobile targets, myself. Or Maxim range if it's got AAA beams.

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Blitzerland on September 27, 2004, 05:54:27 pm

Quote

Originally posted by ngtm1r
I only get close enough to be in Tornado range with non-mobile targets, myself. Or Maxim range if it's got AAA beams.

Good strategy, but don't waste Tornados on a cargo container. :D

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 27, 2004, 07:59:54 pm

Two words: Support Ship

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Blitzerland on September 27, 2004, 08:08:38 pm

You can't call in support ships. The whole purpose of this is to see how long you can survive with the ship you chose, and your chosen loadout.

EDIT:

A cookie for whomsoever manages to win Heavy Assault on medium mode, flying a Thoth. ;)

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: NGTM-1R on September 27, 2004, 08:18:30 pm

You can't? *blinks* I could.

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Blitzerland on September 27, 2004, 08:29:49 pm

Quote

Originally posted by ngtm1r
You can't? *blinks* I could.

Never said I couldn't. Would have liked to see someone else try.

This guy is starting to annoy me...:hopping:

*Seeks comfort from cats

EDIT: I feel better now. :D

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Fergus on September 28, 2004, 01:31:04 pm

You can call in the Support ship, and the fighters after sentry guns were laughable(oo cuting remarks here)

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Kosh on September 28, 2004, 02:08:43 pm

Why does the download link just open a new window for this thread?

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: TopAce on September 28, 2004, 02:59:58 pm

God wants it to happen this way. :D
Otherwise, no Idea. :blah:

Title: Do you have what it takes?
Post by: Blitzerland on September 28, 2004, 04:55:53 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Kosh
Why does the download link just open a new window for this thread?

Read my post. Right-click, select SAVE TARGET AS to download.